To horror fans, John Carpenter's 'The Thing' is practically sacred. The cold, dark setting and mounting paranoia of the film are ratcheted up once audiences get their first view of the gruesome, other-worldly creature -- achieved through incredible special effects done by Rob Bottin.

Set three days before the events of John Carpenter's 1982 remake (also titled 'The Thing'), the upcoming horror thriller 'The Thing' follows an Arctic scientific team that stumbles upon a crashed alien ship, accidentally awakens the creature buried inside, and then finds out the hard way that the alien is a shape-shifting killing machine. All in a day's work.